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Continue reading →: Sunday Potager Palaver #4 (Fall Has Come To The Potager)Happy Sunday, gardening friends! We are having the most wonderful weather this weekend, perfect for walking in the woods, or the city trails, and finishing up gardening chores. How are you making out with your garden clean up? We are so ready that if snow came tomorrow, we would be…
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Continue reading →: Prepare Your Garden for Winter: 12 Easy StepsAs October comes to a close, many of us gardeners here in the northern hemisphere are ready to take a bit of a break from our gardens, and the yardwork. Even as a super avid gardener, grower, garden blogger, who lives and breathes for growing food and flowers, I am…
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Continue reading →: How To Put Your Potager Garden To Bed – 5 Easy StepsNext year’s fantastic, healthy, organic, kitchen garden begins right here, right now. What you do now to winterise your beds, makes the difference between a great garden year ahead or a frustrating, pest filled one. This is how organic gardeners put their gardens to bed in fall for healthy, happy…
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Continue reading →: Sunday Potager Ramblings #3 (Unexpected Hard Frost While We Were Away)Well, hi! How are you all making out? We are supposed to get snow tomorrow! I am not super stoked about that, hahaha. Yes, it should melt, and we will have some nicer days to rake the leaves into garden beds, but still… ugh for cold and snow. On the…
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Continue reading →: 4 Ways To Over-Winter DahliasI have fallen back in love with dahlias this summer. Don’t get me wrong, I have always liked them and have grown them most every summer since I began my gardening journey, over three decades ago, but this year something special happened. This year, Floret Flower Farms came out with…
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Continue reading →: Rosemary Wreath DIYThis post is a repost from November 28th, 2021 – from The Nitty Gritty Potager This lovely scented rosemary wreath is dead simple to make. Truly! If I can make it, anyone can! I have been on a bit of a wreath making kick this fall. Not sure why,…
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Continue reading →: Seven Things Saturday – What to do on this Long Weekend in OctoberThis post is a kind of catch all post of my thoughts. I post 5 Things Friday on my fb page each week, so that is where this idea came from as there will be no Sunday Bits this week. Sorry, sorry! I know some of you love it the…
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Continue reading →: Sunday Potager Ramblings #2 (Winterizing The Garden)I’ve been keeping an eye on the forecast as I go about prepping the garden for winter. The snowflakes have disappeared on the long term forecast, but minus degrees are still there, and coming up soon. Eek! I really , really need another 2 weeks to get all the yardwork…
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Continue reading →: Ultimate Guide to Planting Garlic SuccessfullyUpdated October 2025. If you are fairly new to growing garlic, or maybe a seasoned grower looking for some tips on how to get bigger bulbs at harvest, these 5 easy steps will make it super simple to get amazing results each year. Luckily, garlic is one of the very…
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Continue reading →: Clean Out The Garden Quickles (Quick Pickled VegetablesEver since I tried this Wedge Salad with avocados and quick pickled onions from Smitten Kitchen, I have been hooked on making quickles from all sorts of vegetables. It is a great way to use up stragglers from your vegetable garden during end of season clean up, too. I started…
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